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- WARNING: DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM
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- I have made a diligent effort to ensure that this program will not damage
- your data or hardware, but I am a simple-minded imbecile, and it's entirely
- possible that I've inadvertently created a monster. So, I URGE YOU TO
- IMMEDIATELY DESTROY YOUR COPY OF THIS PROGRAM and never never never use it.
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- If you choose to ignore my warning and this program destroys your computer,
- makes your cat pregnant, causes you to grow hair where you don't want it, or
- does anything else that you or anyone else do not like...tough noogies. It's
- not my problem. You have been warned.
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- DIGEST READER v1.88, copyright David L. Bergart, 1995.
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- bodafu@infobahnos.com
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- This program is FREE SOFTWARE.
- Distribution in unmodified form is unrestricted
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- DESCRIPTION
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- This program reads RFC 1153 digests, as used by most
- Internet mailing lists. It requires MS Windows version 3.1.
- It will not run under earlier version of Windows, nor will
- it run under Windows NT.
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- The basic operation is like that of any file viewer or text
- editor. You can load a digest file via the reader's Files menu,
- you can pass the name of the file on the command line,
- or you can associate the digest file with the reader
- via Program Manager's File menu.
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- Once a digest is loaded, the program presents you with a list
- of message subject-lines, and a list of senders names. Just
- click on an entry in either list, and the associated digest
- article will be shown in the text window. The subject list can
- be sorted, or viewed in digest order. The sender's names are
- always sorted. You can copy an article to the clipboard with
- reply-quotation, or save it to an archive digest. Text can be
- Rot13 encrypted/decrypted. The article text and the lists can
- be searched. An alternate article separator can be defined,
- which allows reading a variety of data files as though they were
- digests. An external viewer can be defined to handle articles
- that exceed the text-length limit of the internal viewer.
- URLs can be passed to external programs. Articles can be
- killfiled by subject or sender.
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- Detailed instructions can be found in the help file.
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- INSTALLATION
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- Put DIGEST.EXE in any convenient directory.
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- Put CMDIALOG.VBX and CTL3DV2.DLL into your Windows system
- directory -- unless they are already present.
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- *DO NOT* leave copies of CMDIALOG.VBX and CTL3DV2.DLL in the directory
- where you've put DIGEST.EXE (unless, of course, you've put it in the
- Windows system directory). If you don't install CTL3DV2.DLL correctly,
- it will tell you so when you try to run Digest Reader.
-
- This program is written in Visual BASIC, so you must have a copy of
- VBRUN300.DLL in your Windows system directory. It is available at
- anonymous FTP sites such as CICA and SIMTEL.
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- CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
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- All comments, suggestions, and (ESPECIALLY) bug reports are welcome.
- There is no need to register this program, but if you let me know that
- you are using it, my curiosity will be satisfied and I will be able to
- notify you of bug-fixes and new versions.
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- You can email me at bodafu@infobahnos.com
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- Done.
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